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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

The problems with the SPM are similar those from the previous fifth assessment report which prompted me to write a post in 2013. I think in hindsight that my concerns from 2013 to some extent were supported by the fact that the IPCC organised an Expert Meeting on Communication, Oslo, Norway, 9–10 February 2016. mm increase every year.

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My Kind of Town

Legal Planet

In 2020, the lake level hit a record high, after having hit a record low in 2013. That seems like a plausible scenario under climate change but seemingly hasn’t been established yet. As climate scientists predict, more rain is hitting Chicago in the form of intense storms. inches of rain fell. Download as PDF.

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A distraction due to errors, misunderstanding and misguided Norwegian statistics

Real Climate

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. Furthermore, the volume of the oceans increases from the melting of land ice.

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ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science

Union of Concerned Scientists

Regardless, the company publicly cast doubt on the reality of global warming, attempted to discredit climate scientists and climate models, and tried to block climate action. The new paper in Science summarizes key statements by ExxonMobil executives between 2000 and 2013 that cast doubt on the science.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

As climate scientists we tend to look at the IPCC reports a little differently than the general public might. Here are a few things that mark this report out from previous versions that relate to issues we’ve discussed here before: Extreme events are increasingly connected to climate (duh!) Figure SPM 8.

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The unconventional scientist who predicted that rising carbon dioxide levels would change the climate

Physics World

Only a quarter of this was absorbed in the natural carbon cycle, mostly by diffusion into the oceans. Other researchers further explored climate change with new measurements of temperature, infrared absorption by CO 2 (where Callendar’s own work contributed), and the carbon cycle. 139 1961 ).

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

An area of high pressure above the Pacific Ocean was driven eastwards through the jet stream by a “Rossby wave” – a planetary-scale fluctuation arising from the Coriolis force. And although the process uses a lot of water, the beauty of basalt is that it can be found below most of the world’s oceans.

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